Ugo Foscolo
Ugo Foscolo , 1778-1827, Italian poet and patriot. His name was originally Niccolò Foscolo. A devoted Venetian, he pinned his hope of a restored republic on Napoleon and fought under him against the Austrians, even after Napoleon's political untrustworthiness had become evident. Upon Napoleon's defeat and the annexation of Venice to Austria, Foscolo exiled himself to London, where at first he had great social success. Having spent his earnings, he was forced to give lessons and write articles and for several years before his death lived in extreme poverty. His novel, The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis (1798-1802, tr. 1818), an account of his political disillusionment, exerted a strong influence on Italian letters, as did also his critical essays, translations, and lyric poems, especially Sepulchres (1807).
Bibliography: See study by G. Cambon (1980).
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Exile, translation, and return: Ugo Foscolo in England.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Annali d'Italianistica; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Translation, Return: Ugo Foscolo in England," Cosetta...to study the work of Ugo Foscolo in England. The article...Foscolo, "A Zacinto") Ugo Foscolo, one of Italy's most...Foscolo fought for Napoleon on several occasions...
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Napoleon - the myth. (influence on nineteenth century imagination)(Napoleon & Europe)(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: History Today; 1/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Scott, almost as hostile to Napoleon as Southey, wrote after the...Italian poet phrased it -- Napoleon was naturally of little interest...Waterloo. The Venetian writer Ugo Foscolo described Napoleon in 1814 as, `incorrigibly...
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Translator's introduction: "Italy in translation".(Italian romanticism)
Magazine article from: The Romanic Review; 5/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...the eleventh century, and Napoleon's invasion in the late 1790s...popular novel of the age, Ugo Foscolo's Ultime lettere di Jacopo...Lorenzo after learning of Napoleon's ceding control of Venice...misplaced hopes they had placed in Napoleon, who had led many to believe...
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Rewriting the historical novel on the risorgimento in light of woman's history: gender and nation in Vincenzo Consolo's Il sorriso dell'ignoto marinaio.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Italica; 6/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...prototype" (4) of the Risorgimento novel, Ugo Foscolo's Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis...Altoviti, documents the period from Napoleon's Italian campaigns to the revolutions...treaty of Campoformio of 1797, whereby Napoleon cedes Venice to Austria in exchange for...
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Napoleon in Russia: Questionable Judgement and Critical Errors
Magazine article from: RUSI Journal; 12/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Russian campaign of 1812, Alexander and Napoleon were still allies, and both wanted things...major problems between the two rulers. Napoleon had wanted to create a new Polish state...opposed. Indeed, they were outraged that Napoleon had created the Duchy of Warsaw, and...
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Napoleon, the emperor (of pastries).(TASTE)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 4/8/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...nothing delicate about eating Napoleons - then or now. They crumble...week I came back for another Napoleon. Then another and another...necessary, and neither were the Napoleons. I had moved on. Perfection...pastry that looks like the Napoleon I remember. But rarely does...
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Napoleon: The Path to Power.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Military Review; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; NAPOLEON: The Path to Power, Philip Dwyer, Yale...2008, 672 pages, $35.00. Many see Napoleon as the culmination of the French Revolution...Philip Dwyer concurs and describes the ways Napoleon used the novel methods to present himself...
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Napoleon: A&E soap opera more Waterloo than intriguing look at Bonaparte.(ARTS)(TELEVISION)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 4/5/2003; 700+ words
; ...times like this, it's good to think of Napoleon Bonaparte - or, as I like to call him...say that Saddam Hussein is a child of Napoleon. Can you blame the French for taking...development? Even though the continent Napoleon roiled for 20 years is lurching toward...
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'Napoleon' stands tall visually on A&E
Newspaper article from: Sunday News Lancaster, PA; 3/30/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...A&E is set to air a four-hour movie about Napoleon. Well, OK, Napoleon Bonaparte technically was a Corsican. And he was...But in history and legend, he stands tall. "Napoleon," scheduled to air at 8 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday...
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Napoleon III: A Life.(Review)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 12/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; Fenton Bresler Napoleon III: A Life. Carroll & Graf, 300 pages, $27.50 Being a fan of Napoleon III can be frustrating. Friends and relatives...instigator of the Mexican adventure. "Their" Napoleon wanted to invade England from the French...
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Ugo Foscolo
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Ugo Foscolo The Italian author Ugo Foscolo (1778-1827) was a poet, critic, and dramatist as well...New Documents in the History of Collaboration (1949) and Ugo Foscolo: An Italian in Regency England (1953). □
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Risorgimento
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...literature of this period, especially the novels of Alessandro Manzoni and the marchese d' Azeglio and the poetry of Ugo Foscolo and Giacomo Leopardi , did much to stimulate Italian nationalism. The Risorgimento was primarily a movement of the...
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